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Opening </span></b><b style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; "><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">6 MARCH, exhibition until 26 April 2009</span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">You are warmly invited to the opening of James Coleman, and we look forward to welcoming you at <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236302556_0" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Project Arts Centre</span> for a reception from</span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">7.30pm</span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; "> onwards on Friday 6 March, during the Opening of all the venues which begins at </span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">4pm</span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; "> with a lecture at IMMA. <br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">
<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">The </span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Irish</span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; "> </span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Museum</span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; "> of Modern Art, in collaboration with Project Arts Centre, and the </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236302556_2" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; "><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Royal</span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; "> </span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Hibernian</span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; "> </span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Academy</span></span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">, is pleased to announce an important exhibition by the internationally renowned Irish artist James Coleman. Featuring works from the 1970s up to the early 2000s, the exhibition includes many works previously not seen in </span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Ireland</span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">, including three of Coleman’s most celebrated artworks, <i style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Charon (MIT Project)</i>, 1989, <i style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Seeing for Oneself</i>, 1987-88 and <i style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Untitled</i>, 1998-2002.<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">
<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Recognised internationally as one of the most important and pioneering <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236302556_3" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">contemporary artists</span>, the work of James Coleman over the last forty years has transformed the role of image and sound in visual art, and redefined our relationship with the artworks we see today in museums and galleries around the world. His influence can be seen in a generation of younger <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236302556_4" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">international artists</span>, including Steve McQueen, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236302556_5" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Douglas Gordon</span>, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236302556_6" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Tino Sehgal</span>, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236302556_7" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Stan Douglas</span>, and Jeff Wall.<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">
<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">The works in the exhibition are installed at three venues:<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">
<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; "><b style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">IMMA:</b> <i style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">So Different... and Yet</i>, 1980<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">
<b style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Project Arts Centre</b>: <i style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Box (ahhareturnabout),</i> 1977; <i style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Untitled</i>, 1998-2002<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">
<b style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Royal Hibernian Academy:</b> <i style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Charon (MIT Project),</i> 1989; <i style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Seeing for Oneself</i>, 1987-88; <i style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Connemara Landscape</i>, 1980<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">
<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">James Coleman was born in Ballaghaderreen, Co Roscommon in 1941. Since the 1970s, Coleman has exhibited extensively in international museums and galleries, including more recently the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236302556_8" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Dia Center for the Arts</span>, New York (1994-95), Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne (1995), Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236302556_9" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Paris</span> (1996), <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236302556_10" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Fundació Antoni Tàpies</span>, Barcelona (1999), Lenbachhaus-Kunstbau Städtische Galerie, Munich (2002),<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236302556_11" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Sprengel Museum, Hannover</span> (2002), and Museu do Chiado, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon (2004-05). In 2003, Coleman developed a unique project at the Louvre in </span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Paris</span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; "> for the exhibition <i style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Léonard de Vinci: dessins et manuscrits</i>. In 2007, Coleman participated in Documenta 12 in </span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Kassel</span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">, premiering his new work <i style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Retake with Evidence</i>, 2007. In 2008, Coleman completed the successful showing at IMMA of his trilogy of pioneering works from the 1990s, with the slide installation <i style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Background</i>, 1991-94, following the installati on of I N I T I A L S, 1993-94, in 2006 and <i style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Lapsus Exposure, </i>1992-94, in 2007. These installations celebrated IMMA’s acquisition of these major works through funding from the Heritage Committee of the National Cultural Institutions in 2004.<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">
<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">The current exhibition is accompanied by a substantial new publication published in association with <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236302556_12" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Thames & Hudson</span>, with new texts by the French philosopher <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236302556_13" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Jacques Rancière</span>, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236302556_14" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">University of Paris VIII</span>; Jean Fisher, Professor of Fine Art and<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">
Transcultural Studies, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236302556_15" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Middlesex University</span>; Luke Gibbons, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236302556_16" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Keough</span> Family Chair in Irish Studies, Professor of English, and Concurrent Professor in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre at the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236302556_17" style="cursor: pointer; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; background-position: initial initial; ">University of Notre Dame</span>, and Dorothea von Hantelmann, art historian at the Collaborative<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">
Research Centre "Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits" at the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236302556_18" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Free University Berlin</span>.<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">
<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">A discussion forum to accompany this exhibition will take place at Project Arts Centre on Monday 6 April from </span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">5.00pm</span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; "> to </span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">6.30pm</span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">. </span></p>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Irish</span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; "> </span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Museum</span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; "> of Modern Art: Tuesday - Saturday: </span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">10.00am - 5.30pm</span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">, except Wednesday:10.30am - 5.30pm, Sunday and Bank Holidays 12noon - </span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">5.30pm</span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">. Mondays and Good Friday 10 April closed.<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">
<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Project Arts Centre: Monday – Saturday </span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">11.00am – 7.30pm</span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">. Sundays & <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236302556_21" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">Bank Holidays</span> closed.<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.2em; ">
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